Posted on 05/02/2009 12:56:15 PM PDT by Schnucki
It's a first lady faux pas -- wearing expensive, high-fashion French designer sneakers to a food bank.
Michelle Obama wore the sneakers, made by Lanvin, while helping feed the poor at a Washington food bank on Wednesday. The pricetag on the footwear? A cool $540.
Keds, they're not.
The sneakers, which come in denim and satin, are a favorite of comic Ellen DeGeneres and rapper Kanye West -- and they're "certainly not a reflection of the poor economy," said FOX News' Noelle Watters, host of iMag Style.
"She paired the kicks with a much more reasonably priced cardigan from J. Crew similar to the one she's worn in the past," Watters said. "And quite honestly, the usually well-styled Michelle didn't match. While her over-priced designer sneaks were gray and pink, her sweater was a gold argyle style. A definite fashion faux pas."
According to the New York Daily News, the first lady of style likely got her sneakers through Ikram, the Chicago retailer that usually outfits her.
Obama's style helped catapult her into the 93rd spot of Maxim's "eyeball-searing, fantasy-fulfilling, brain-exploding" Hot 100 list, which was announced Friday.
The first lady's sense of fashion has received considerable media attention. During her trip to Europe last month to accompany President Obama to the G20 summit, her fashion choices and protocol-breaking touch of the Queen of England nearly received as much ink as the summit itself.
The White House did not return a message seeking comment.
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Three Five Zero Zero
That’s their convuluted thinking.
“”We could go out and buy the same clothes if we wanted.””
Like the $1,925.00 dress she was pictured in this week?
You are so right. Nothing but a PR creation.
The fraud was there for a five minute photo op and did no real helping the poor. I really hope you are not stupid enough to think these pieces of crap actually do any real work. It is all a show for the ignorant who love them.
Bwahahahahhahahahaha!!!!
A Republican First Lady would have been branded “out of touch” by every douche bag with a keyboard. Not so Miss Thang (aka Thunder Thighs).
Those are some ugly sneakers. I wouldn’t pay $2 for them.
The pricetag on the footwear? A cool $540. Keds, they're not. The sneakers, which come in denim and satin, are a favorite of comic Ellen DeGeneres and rapper Kanye West -- and they're "certainly not a reflection of the poor economy," said FOX News' Noelle Watters, host of iMag Style.
Then rip her for bugging out without putting in any substantial work helping the poor, not for failing to shed her expensive footware.
Marked to read later
She gifts dvd’s etc, and spends lots and lots and lots for herself.
$540? There’s a sucker born every minute.
Michelle seems to prefer the look of a cheap sofa.
Look, man.. if you were that ugly and could spend some bucks to try to look better....
She is married so quit sucking up to her.
I’ll rip the POS bitch for everything she does as the stupidest voters in the world put her into the position of representing America so maybe she will quit acting like a ghetto crackhead.
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